I Believe I Can Fly
by bcrants

Comment:
Another image I gave a 9. Excellent capture. Congrats!

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
by Judi

Comment:
Great job Judi. I gave this a 9. Loved the orange tone of the sky and Sun as well as your silhouette. Congrats!

Soar
by stantheman1313

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: Congrats on your first ribbon. I was thinking, as I voted on this, "I wish it were vertically oriented, this looks awkward..." but I guess that didn't hurt you :-)

I called this to ribbon, and I'm glad it did. I do agree with Robert here though that the landscape orientation was a little awkward to the eye. Not that it's a bad thing because it can add to an image as much as take away from it. In this case it more than likely helped as you got your ribbon which again...I knew you would. LOL. :) Congrats!

Soar
by stantheman1313

Comment:
I like this a lot. Great perspective on the jump as well. Should place very high and probably even ribbon. Good luck. 9

Up..Up...Saved!!
by Trompie

Comment:
You should have turned the goal around and shot your subject front lit by the sun. It would have been more effective and you lose a lot with the blocked shadows in the trees and the washed out sky. Not voting.

Colour Inside the Lines
by hotpasta

Comment:
Well, it's one rule that I think is a bit over the top and should be addressed. I may be wrong, but I feel it was probably DQ'd because of the black border you added which is for the most part distinguishable around the actual image, but on the edge where your hand is and the border meets your black board it no longer looks like a border. At least it doesn't on my calibrated monitors. It has to clearly be defined as a border. If I add a border to my photos it's always a small black border, but I won't add it if there is a lot of black on any of the edges where it gets lost as it does here.

It's a pretty silly rule, and I agree with most if not all the rest, but to ME...if you can clearly see a black border (or sometimes white depending on the photo) on 3 of the edges it's pretty darn safe to assume that there is a border on the fourth side of the photo even if it blends in with the background. How many people add a border to only three sides of a photo. Answer...none. People either border two sides or the whole image.

I've seen it time and time again on here where a black border added to a black background gets a DQ. If you had added a white border for instance the photo would still have a blue ribbon next to it. Again, maybe there is some other reason that it was DQ'ed that I'm not seeing, but that's my take.

Great photo BTW...

Dave

Ghost Bike at Double Eagle
by rajron

Comment:
I researched this bike and Heather online. You did a great job capturing the solemn, almost desolate and eerie feel to this ghost bike monument and the processing definitely helps here. Well done. I do question some of the composition choices though as the horizon is dead center and I would also normally like to have a little more room on the right side of the frame so the bike wasn't so closed in. Then again I'm a little on the fence there because I think it being a little jammed up against the right part of the frame helps give it that off kilter "somethings wrong here" feel which sadly fits the situation with the death of a 42 year old woman. Terrible loss, but you do her memory justice with your photo.

Back to the horizon line. I feel a slightly different angle would have made this even more effective. You angle of view places the bike seat at the horizon and blocks some of the mountains in the background. I would have liked to have seen an unobstructed view of that great shrub/tree above the handle bars. With that said...the photo is about the bike and I'm still giving you a 9 because it's a truly compelling image despite the MINOR compositional preferences I've listed. Good luck!

Tending the fields
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Congrats once again Steve. I especially liked the dirt/dust being kicked up by the tractor and tiller.

Horseshoe Springs
by Aarthek

Comment:
Wow, this is a REALLY cool scene. Nice find! Congrats on having it displayed as well.

Twilight
by Ken

Comment:
This is awesome. Great job. You have another fav.